Ward said the impact of bleaching had been extensive across 16 sites that she visited in the reef’s southern section, affecting coral species that had usually been resistant to bleaching. Some coral had started to die, a process that usually takes weeks or months after bleaching occurs.

“I feel devastated,” she said. “I’ve been working on the reef since 1992 but this [event], I’m really struggling with.”

As do I Dr. Ward, with ever election result reinforcing the deveststation of the orthodoxy and the disregard my fellow citizens have for a livable biosphere.

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[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This graph might explain some of it:

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago

Everyday it is looking more and more like something systematic has changed in the paradigm of heat transfer into the oceans, some critical threshold has been broken where a previously efficient cooling system that kept things in check has now become seriously compromised.

This is a harrowing moment to say the least :(

[–] PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This graph really just makes me think we are fucked, like really fucked, easily in the span of a human life time, if not a few years.

How will this not have crazy knock on effects?

Yet I still go to work and plan for the future and just live my life in some sort of daze. Still tell myself I'll find a wife and have kids one day.

I wonder if I just allow myself to live the ignorance is bliss life, the embodiment of the "this is fine" meme, like so many on this world. Easier just to go with the human flow as we slowly all jump off the cliff like a herd of buffalo.